Pale Proboscidea Pummelled
Super Sandy Shines
Maikel Rotteveel may have blown his horn loudest with a five-goal haul against the White Elephant amateurs from Changi, but newcomer
Sandy Edmond was the talk of the town with a debut hat-trick from right wing that surely bodes well for his career at Grilled. Midfielders
Quah Han Kok and
Dani Spirig added two afterthoughts as Grilled began their new season with a bang.
The Elephants' bunch of Sunday league warriors weren't expected to put up any real resistance to the Birds, and so it was as S-League top scorer Rotteveel sizzled with two cleanly taken goals by the half-hour mark. The cheers were loud, but became even louder when the much-liked Hidde van Liere's replacement,
Sandy Edmond, duplicated that feat by brushing by his man-marker Xing Ruiyou easily both times.
Rotteveel then laid it on a plate for strike partner
Subri bin Ku Zainol, but the Malaysian saw his effort beat Lei Guixiang but skim past the far post as he laid it across the face of goal. No matter for Rotteveel, as the irrepresible Dutch hitman finished off a beautiful cross from youngster
Tapesh Chowdhury to claim a first-half hat-trick.
Sandy Edmond then connected decently with a floating ball from Paullin for his third of the match too, and with regular taker Sid rested, Rotteveel was called upon to convert a penalty after Subri was tripped just inside the box. No worries there as Rotteveel coolly sent Lei the wrong way.
Quah Han Kok's bad habits then caught up with him again, as he failed to pull out of a doomed sliding tackle on university student Liu Chujian. Quah was fortunate to escape with just the yellow as Liu was stretchered off in agony, but that didn't stop him from harassing Tajudin bin Shahrum aggressively to manufacture a goal for himself after Rotteveel had popped up to claim his fifth.
Dani Spirig injected an extra dose of flair into the one-sided contest with a soaring overhead kick with three minutes to go, which put the scoreline into double figures.
